1960-11-22 — Page 6

Roderick Mann

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1960.

REPORTING FROM THE RITZY RESORT WHERE EVEN PALM TREES TURN UP THEIR NOSES

Don Iddon's Diary

Residents-Elect for the White House-but by the time they move in there will be another member of the Kennedy clan.

Irish Jack-the snobs

Palm Beach,

THIS is not usually Kennedy country, though the Kennedy clan have had a big house here for more than 30 years. Palm Beach, a lush and lovely resort, went right down the line for Vice- President Nixon, and so did the less glamorous West Palm Beach just across the blue waters of Lake Worth.

But now that the President-Elect is here, Palm Beach, the home of the millionaires and head- quarters of international Society, is bright with pride that this, is now the winter White House.

Chasing girls

Kennedy says: "Sure I took cortisone in the past for an

can

scarce forbear

to

sneer

In this solidly Nixon town

.

adrenal deficiency, but I've been the Kennedy clan has

off the stuff for a long time and

had I have never

Addison's

HAVE met at least 50 people disease or anything like it, and its winter White House... who have told me they used

to playing with Jack Kennedy hìm wutched on the beach, elimb the palm trees, and career around the avenues

his Also chuse the girls. blcycle.

on

Senator Kennedy is finding the attention of the guard, irk- some and twice

has slipped

away on his own,

my back hasn't troubled me for five years or more."

Sun, the tall

Tuxan who in specializes

Kennedy suffered severe wor

In his back and had wounds three operations. You wouldn't think it.

the spectacular.

Kennedy IN walched him hurking a medicine bali un the bench out- convinced that

earried: side his father's inase today. Johnson

te i brzed slim. Himber. 1 most of the res- watched him dive into the pool "tive South for He looks well. though his from the high board then do sn him. "1 couldn't neck is slightly swollen, His Australian crawl to the shallow have won with- detractors and there are quite und.

a few because of his water-thin margin of victory sald the thickness of his neck is due to massive doses of curtisone..

Lyndon Johnson-blow hard, work hard.

out Lyndon

is ab- He looks like a college boy L.B.J.

this solutely. O.K. in and it's hard to imagine man with his college blazers, my book." his turtle-neck sweaters, bis white Thunderbird, and Jits boyish grin and rather forged practical jokes as the next Pre sident of the United States.

Johnson wears the initials LBJ.

Lyndon The Dake for Baines Johnson) 'Prince of

shirts,

Palm Beach.' cuff-links, and

on ties,

hly

He is not resting of course. pyjamas,

He told us his we linched at the shorts.

big house at North Decan He is not a modest man. He Boulevard: "I'm here to soak is a hard worker and bard

up some sunshine and get some drinker,

Test."

But ever since he arrived he has been to a gryies of conferences with Lali Andrlenn Ambas- sadors, with alties, with Vice- President Nixon à Mintal, and

Awaiting baby

Jack will fly there when the birth is imminent.

The Palm Beach season har not really started yet, but a few gapery and gawkers are here, 50 newspapermen and there and women. Worth Avenue, one of the world's great shopping streets, n boulevard of mink and money, silk ani matin and sable, is half-closed, and my favourite pube here — the Albi and Taboo are shut- tered.

The snobs In Palm Beach, and there are a few lolling on their green lawns, their silver

in sunds, and

their bright "After all, blue pools, say: Kennedy in Jack-come-lately Irish. The prince of Palm Beach of Windsor, who Is the Duke comes here every year,"

It seems to me as I go around that there are lots of Gigolo- type young men about the pince, escorting the rich old dolls. This, of course, Is a favourite for- tune, hunters'' place as it is dia-

Kennedy Umils himself to two stacked with dollars and

The makers telephone calls cocktails & day, hut wolfs lee-monds.

day.

cream like schoolboy. He

I find unfortunate, that such He needs only five hours'

strict Segregation should be sleep a night, s brother Bou, keeps telling us that he won't make any Cabinet appointments tell me. He

was to fly to until after Thanksgiving, but I practised here. John Kennedy is to stay with the

a Bghting Liberal and crusader Texts

next lave the impression that he i Vice-President, Lyndon John anxious to keep on

the front for civil rights, and he is now living in a community which родез,

keeps the Negro down and out,

Just Fancy That !

I have forecast a semi-coall- tlon Administration for a long time and expect feading Repub- Bicans to be included in the Kennedy Cabinet.

-Jack would like to appoint his. brother Bobbie a brilliant lawyer the Kennedy campaign and

Bus driver Tom Olsen is helping girls in Newport, Mon, to all by hypnosis, Mr Oleen told one girl in a pynotle trance "You must leave the frying pan alone and cut, no while bread." The girl, who six months ago weighed 15st. 111b, manager, as Attorney-General, now five stones lighter.

Living life

OLOURED people have

to

be aff the streets by dusk, which seems to me outrageous. Yet it was the coloured those but Bobble tells us: "No, it would who had the -voto-who voted be like nepotism,"

for Kennedy. The rich whites voted for Dlek Nixon. At the Bobble has seven children, the next Press conference I might BOOK which daims to have the longest title in the world familiar tousled hair, hates Labour A was published in New York recently: "How to Write Ten lender Jamy Hoffa, and as a bring up this matter. Best-sellers in Your Spare Time and Decome the First Authorstreak of ruthlessness in him. He The lows a thick with Rolls- on your Block, Unless There is already One Living on your has the Kennedy charm, but is Royces, Jaguars, Mercedes, Block, in which case you will become the Second Author in your 16 as cautious and conciliatory, Cadillace. The palm-lined Block, and that's Okay Too."

as brigit and decisive, ap his streets are dazzling in the sun brother Jack,

and there are more pretty girls to the aquaro-": mila`than any- The President-Elects wife, where else on earth. *・・ Jacqueline, the next First Lady This is really living, so we

TWO zoos mado nows in Los Angeles by announcing they intend to wop soma grius. Griffith Park Zoo is full of she-grus. Fremu Zoo has too many ho-gnus. The exchange la expected to boost the gnu population.

and a felching as a film star say here. I hope Mr Kennedy' is in Washington arwaiting her coros hore often and I hapu 1 baby,

come with Balsiai

Stanley Baker doesn't let his money

get him down...

Beirut (The Lebanon),

WENT to Beirut's plushy £2,000,000 casino-and there, with a winning scowl on his face, I found Stanley Baker. When

he was through counting his winnings we adjourned to the terrace overlooking the bay for iced drinks.

Here he explained why he was holiday-making in the Lebanon.

I

"I'm here." he explained, "because I believe in enjoying my money! I have no guilt complex about It like some people.

don't intend to leave carncil it and I like spending it. I money to my three children.

any

"I don't mean I will deliberatoly set fire to my lust pound note before I kick the bucket. I mean that I have no intention of setting aside large sums of money for them to inherit,

"I want them to earn their own money as I had to. In- heriting money is a corrupting business.

"If one of my children comes to me at 18 and says 'I want

a sports cur,' I will any, Fine-ko and earn it.'

"Life was tough for me when 1 started, and I believe benefited from it. I don't mean I won't help my

started. Of course I will. My parents helped me, and they had little enough. When I came out of the Army I couldn't get started, Nobody wanted my kind of toughness in those days. It was all tennis rac- kets and sports shoes.

.

Impressed

I

kids to

get

*I ballove in living . . . 1 know I'll never starve.

people always look at the man with the beard. It was my idea. As soon as I saw how stiff the competition was going to br suggested the beard. And sure prisingly enough, they said yes.”

I

With or without competition Stanley Baker's rugged siyle has pai him up in the Rolls-Royce class of acters. He has money in the bank and a Hollywood style home in Wimbledon.

"I will tell you why Baker is in demand," a producer bald me. "He is one of the few British actors who like John Wayne and Robert Mitchum when they walk scross the screen. He's a real man."

I told Baker this as we walk- ed back to the gaming tables, He grinned and piled a heap of chips on the table. The number came up

"Bui dɔ you know how I got the part? It

-clank was already est Another actor had il. But I rang up the nim's director und be fold me I could come down to the studio for stooge-testing -feeding lines to an actor being tested for another part,

"Suddenly I found the camera

a close I was a waiter giving me

up. The director was impressed with the way I was reading. And what "The only job I could get in happened? They paid the other London was es a waiter. Well, actor off and I go the part of eventually I lost that, and

Bennett, thought I'd have to go back to Wales and try for a job in re- pertory. But my parents sent me their entire savings—about I asked him: "The Alm you £20-to enable me to stay in have just finished—The Guns of London until I got a break.” Kavarone-q8094 had Gregory Peck, David Niven, and

Baker staresi out over the

the

He is wanted for Muthuy on Bounty in Tahiti this winter, and for the part of Bif Sykes (in which he would be superb) in the Darty Kaye flim version of the British musical had nol Oliver.

"But imagine made thai phone call..

beautiful bay. Around us the Anthony Quinn in that. With Warm Middic

whom did you gel on best?" Eastern night was alive with sound, from crickets EAT by to claxon

theoinding coust

down On road.

"Oh Anthony Quim. He is my kind of actor and my kind of man. Greg is too quiet and serious, and David too smooth and polished.

an

"Tichard Burton had the same

"But kind of background as me," said

Quinn he's Baker. "We've been friends for emotional ball of Are. I have years. And because he never never known an actor exhaust hed any money it seems to have himself the way he does. Before made him very careful with a scene he goes into a comer 1oday.

to grunt and grow and work himself up into the mood he wants.

"But not me, I believe in living. I know 1'17 never starve. If I ever stop earning star money-all right. I will

I take whatever I can get. am not proud.

Afraid?

used to

"I know the others "As you can see," he said, "I mugh at this but I didn't. am pretty realistic about this knew he had to do it." business. 1 know how large

it. Talent. part luck plays in will keep you in it, but it's luck that gets you the breaks.

"Look at me, I played Bennett never In The Cruel Sea and looked back.

He grinned more and took bigger pile off the table.

"The

only trouble is this name of mine," he said. "Stanley. I've always hated P What Q ridiculous. sissy name for a grown man.

--(London Express Servics),

Airmen get a week to beat the jungle

DAF

SINGAPORE. The airmen are given these cooking tips in a pamphlet:--

Reces in Malay SOUP: Boll fresh water turtle

Courto to

* rigorous teach them the art of Turning the jungle from a killer into an ally..

Is Every alman parachuted into the jungle and expected to live on his own for week.

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He must hack his way through 8,000 yards of dense jungle and build a bamboo but.

"Weren't you afraid of being af overshadowed in The Gurs Navarone with all those otherHe is given no food and must learn to live off the land by atars?" I asked.

gathering wild fruits and catching Osh and smull animals.

You see, 1 He grinned: "No. wear a beard in the Alm and

WHITE HOUSE WORRIES

MITE HOUSE

D.C

or

legs, Use the shells as dishes. FISH: There is plenty in shal-

low water. Bake in mud steam in leaves. MEAT: Find rats in roots of large trees and roost them with leaves for flavour. Eat

hot.

How does roast rat taste? Said one of the airmen from the Jungle survival school: "A bit strong, but you don't notice that when you're starving." The lessons paid off for one pilot who crushed his Sabre jet in the jungle. He was on his own for two nights before he was rescued by helicopter.

-(London Express Service).

BY JAK

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